Insulation Removal in Belle Glade

What has to come out

Belle Glade is the western end of the county, on the lake. Removal is a soaked or nesting attic in a simpler house, often with the hatch in the carport. The drive from either shop is long. The day is booked, not squeezed between two Boca jobs.

What stays

A dry attic is still a seal and a blow to R-38. There is no Belle Glade pin. Call before you expect a truck. A metal shop on the property is not the house attic.

Getting the bags out

Carport hatches are open to the weather, which is often why the fill at the opening is the ruined part. We do not vacuum the whole attic because the first foot by the hatch is dirty, if the rest is dry. We look.

How the day goes

Look
The hatch in Belle Glade gets opened before a truck is promised. Depth, moisture, and whether the mess is the whole attic or one bay.
Protect
The rooms under the hatch get covered. The bags stay on the path that was agreed. A plaster or wood lid that is already soft stops the day.
Remove
Ruined fill is vacuumed into bags and hauled off. The deck should be visible where the bad fill was. Dry fill next to it is not taken just to make the attic look empty.
Next
Sanitizing only if the insulation was contaminated. Then the holes that are finally visible get sealed. Then new insulation to R-38. Those are not one price.

After the deck is bare

Metal roofs and small shops are the foam question. The house, if it is vented, gets blown-in after the bad fill is gone. Those are not the same bid. Call (561) 654-7698.

The install that follows is blown-in insulation in Belle Glade. Contaminated decks are attic sanitizing, a separate page. The contractor, separate from this tear-out, is the insulation contractor in Belle Glade.

Questions

When do you remove insulation in Belle Glade?

Is insulation removal included in a blown-in price?

No. Removal is its own price. A planning range for new fill does not include bagging out the old insulation. Sanitizing, if the fill was contaminated, is a second price. The new blow is a third.

Where is the shop for a Belle Glade removal?

There is no shop in Belle Glade. The crew comes from the Boca Raton shop at 4263 NW 1st Ave, Boca Raton, FL 33431. Call (561) 654-7698.

The attic numbers, not a brochure

The 2023 Florida Building Code, Energy Conservation, Table R402.1.2 sets a climate zone 1 ceiling at R-30 and a climate zone 2 ceiling at R-38. Cardinal installs R-38 and checks the inches. A Florida page that lists R-49 to R-60, or R-3.2 to R-3.8 per inch for both fiberglass and cellulose, is using a different book. Table R402.4.1.1 says air-permeable insulation shall not be used as the air seal.

Quotes are prepared by Russell Y, a building scientist, BPI certified, and certified to perform blower door testing. When the door is run, the result is air changes per hour at 50 pascals, the method in R402.4.1.2. That section limits new houses in climate zones 1 and 2 to 7 ACH50. An insulation job on an existing house is not automatically that test. We report the number only when we measured it.

Insulation numbers Cardinal uses against the Florida code
Item	Number	What it means
Zone 1 ceiling, Florida code	R-30 minimum	Palm Beach and Broward
Zone 2 ceiling, Florida code	R-38 minimum	Not R-49 and not R-60
What Cardinal installs	R-38, depth checked	Above the zone 1 floor
New blown fiberglass	About R-2.5 per inch	Not R-3.2 to R-3.8
Settled fiberglass	About R-2.2 per inch	4 inches is about R-9
New cellulose	About R-3.6 per inch	Denser. Still not an air seal
Open-cell foam	About R-3.6 per inch	A roof-deck product
Closed-cell foam	About R-6.5 per inch	2 inches is about R-13

The attics on this page

Belle Glade is the western end of Palm Beach County, on the lake. Houses are simpler. Hatches are often in the carport. The drive from either shop is a long one, and the day has to be booked, not squeezed between two Boca jobs.

A dry attic is still an air seal and a blow to R-38. Call before you expect a truck. There is no Belle Glade pin and no Belle Glade street address on this site.

Metal roofs and small shops around the lake are the foam question. The house attic, if it is vented, is blown-in. Those are not the same bid. The phone is (561) 654-7698.

The code in Belle Glade

Belle Glade is in Palm Beach County. Table R301.1 of the 2023 Florida Building Code, Energy Conservation, lists Palm Beach County as climate zone 1A. Table R402.1.2 sets the zone 1 ceiling minimum at R-30. Belle Glade does not publish its own attic R-value. The city enforces the Florida Building Code.

Palm Beach County is not in the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone. That zone is only Miami-Dade and Broward. Parts of the Palm Beach coast are still a wind-borne debris region, which is an opening-protection rule from the wind map, not an insulation number. Section R806.2 of the 2023 Florida Building Code, Residential, sets the net free vent area at 1/150 of the attic. The exception is 1/300 only when 40 to 50 percent of that area is within 3 feet of the ridge and the rest is in the bottom third. Insulation cannot close the soffit. R806.3 requires at least 1 inch at the eave vent.

The county zone is Table R301.1. The Boca Raton worked example, including the vent math, is the building code page. Cardinal still installs a vented attic to R-38 and checks the depth.

Insulation removal in Belle Glade